Mercedes Sosa is known to be an had an Argentine singer who died on October 4, 2009, at 5:15 am from multiple organ failure. She has also received several foreign honors and the Latin Grammy Award for Best Folk Album in 2000 (Misa Criolla), 2003 (Acstico), 2006 (Corazón Libre), 2009 (Cantora 1; winner of Best Recording Package and nominee for Album of the Year), and 2011 (Deja La Vida Volar).
As the most significant figure in popular music in the Sosa nation during the previous ten years, she received the Diamond Konex Honor from the Argentine Konex Foundation in 1995. This award is one of the most prestigious in Argentina.
Why was Mercedes Sosa forced into exile?
It was really difficult during the 1960s and 1970s in Latin America when songs with political messages often resulted in many musicians suffering great personal losses, imprisonment, and exile. In Sosa’s lifetime, she received death threats and was even arrested on stage, imprisoned, and ultimately forced into exile in France.
In 1978, when she was giving a recital in La Plata, she was arrested on stage and a large part of the audience was arrested. She went to Paris and then to Madrid. Exile was very painful for Sosa and during the process, her second husband by the name Pocho Mazitelli died in 1978.
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